Philosophy

Speaking schedule: Serbia, Poland, Sweden, Norway (April-May 2023)

I’ll be traveling to speak at these in-person events over the next month or so: Belgrade, Serbia, April 11, 2023, Lecture: “Love and Hate in Uncertain Times.” Debate: “Is Objectivism an Open or Closed Philosophy?” Ayn Rand Center Europe.  Warsaw, Poland, April 14, 2023. “Clash with Totalitarianisms, 1939-1945.” Institute of National Remembrance. Stockholm, Sweden, May 9-12, 2023, various […]

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Marxists are determinists, and why that subverts democracy — 2-minute clip from Australia

Stephen Hicks, Professor of Philosophy (USA) and John Anderson, former Deputy Prime Minister (Australia) discuss Democracy, the do-it-yourself politics that presupposes agency — in contrast to Marxism’s environmental determinism that overrides agency. Excerpted from this full-hour interview. Related:

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Good Woke, Bad Woke (Our Debates Over Liberty, Equality, and Progress) TODAY

Stephen Hicks Speaks at Utah State University today Atlas Society Senior Scholar and renowned philosopher, Dr. Stephen Hicks will talk at the Utah State University at an open event hosted by the school’s Turning Point USA Chapter. He’ll speak on: Good Woke, Bad Woke (Our Debates Over Liberty, Equality, and Progress).‍ All are welcome to

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Open or Closed Objectivism? Stephen Hicks & Craig Biddle to debate

Is Objectivism a “Closed System” or an “Open System”? Stephen Hicks heads to Belgrade, Serbia, from April 10-14th to speak at Ayn Rand Center Europe’s New Intellectuals Conference 2023. In addition to giving a lecture, Love and Hate in Uncertain Times, he’ll take the stage with Craig Biddle, Director of Education at The Objective Standard Institute, to

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Zarathustra’s predatory collectivism

Nietzsche is usually labelled an individualist. One of the more controversy-generating claims of my Nietzsche and the Nazis appears in Section 34, where I argue that Nietzsche is more collectivist than individualist.[1] Re-reading Zarathustra I came across two more relevant quotations. In both cases, Zarathustra is speaking: “A thousand goals there have been until now,

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Dr. Stephen Hicks | The Glenn Beck Show | Ep 15 [In case you missed it]

Glenn sits down with Dr. Stephen Hicks, Philosophy Professor at Rockford University. In this episode, they discuss definitions and differences between capitalism and socialism and the moralities behind them. They also cover: Postmodernism and its ever-growing presence in our society, Existentialism by means of Friedrich Nietzsche’s claim that God is dead, the rise of science

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